The Navy’s USS Gerald R. Ford and its strike group entered the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility on Tuesday, marking a major redeployment of U.S. naval power to the Western Hemisphere.
“The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement.
The carrier group’s assignment to the SOUTHCOM region marks a significant expansion of naval power in the Caribbean and South American region.
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